Welfare State Services as Collective Goods for Economic Development: Italian Anomalies

Journal title QA Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria
Author/s Emmanuele Pavolini
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/4
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 65-87 File size 94 KB
DOI 10.3280/QU2014-004004
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The essay analyzes social investment strategies in Italy at the regional level. Italy is increasingly characterized by the presence of two welfare systems, one (in the Centre-North) in which social investment strategies integrate traditional welfare schemes and support local economic development, the other (in the South) in which the shortcomings of the traditional welfare state are matched by poor development in social investment strategies. In no other Western European country is the relationship between the level of local economic development and the diffusion of social investment strategies so marked. EconLit Classification: I380, O100

Keywords: Social investment, Local development, Territorial inequalities, Territorial divides, Italy

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Emmanuele Pavolini, I servizi di welfare come beni collettivi per lo sviluppo: le anomalie del caso italiano in "QA Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria" 4/2014, pp 65-87, DOI: 10.3280/QU2014-004004